A Question Are you limited to life on pavement

I manage. :)

That is why I chose to travel the side roads and stay off the Interstate Highway System whenever possible.
There's too much to see in America and it can't be seen at 75+ MPH on a limited access highway.
Stop and smell the roses, pine trees or cow manure. Life is short.

My trailer is on pavement just long enough to find a dirt/gravel road to head off to a secluded post in the boonies.

Don't encourage more people to get out in the boonies, then they'll become tourist traps too....

Off grid, off pavement in 8 days, then on to Vegas for maximum concrete.

Different strokes for different folks. 40 years ago when I lived down in SoCal it was hard to find privacy, wildlife, camping etc - even playing a round of golf required you to make reservations weeks in advance. Everyone adapts or moves. I chose to move.

Go out in nature? Isn't that what youtube is for? :B

As ksg5000 says different strokes for different folks. I use my RV the way I want to. If you want to use it differently, then go for it. I'm certainly not going to tell someone they're doing it wrong.

I always said, there is no right or wrong way to go RVing (or camping). It's just "different" for each one of us.

When we were younger and the kids were still little, we did all the running stuff, everything from amusement parks to hikes in forests so deep if you stepped 10 foot off the trail they'd have to call a rescue party for you.

Been to the beaches, the mountains, the prairies, and the cities. Been to the tourist areas as well as some pretty isolated places.

Our house is located in the country. This year we had a bean field for a back yard and a corn field for a front yard. Tractors, plows, fertilizers, and combines are the indicators of the changing seasons. Snowed in back country roads in the winter, power outages in the Spring when the Spring rains and wind blows so hard you wonder how things stay standing, or the RV in your driveway doesn't blow over!

So, now that we're older, the kids have kids of their own and only very rarely go camping with us, and because we've pretty much, "been there, done that! and did the go, go, go camping lifestyle, back to nature, swimming, hiking, you name it, keep up with the Jones, gotta do everything to educate the kids and expose them to what true nature is really all about (yea, sure)....

Well, the time has come if I want to just sit around a simple campfire at a State Park so I have someone to converse with, instead of cows, pigs, and ears of corn, I think that's pretty much OK for me now!

And if I decide to go inside my camper and enjoy the $77,000 investment by watching television, well, I think that's OK too.

I've lived in "nature" pretty much all my life. Sometimes it nice to get away from "nature!"

I don't see it as exclusive to one type of camping, I do both. Visiting family I take the RV to a RV park close as possible usually in a city. I enjoy going to the wilderness even more but it depends on the situation.